The Irish standard., 1887-11-12
AN ESTIGATI0N WANTED.

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| Duty That Rests on the shoul-
l de S Of { Bloody n h Bal .5
ElINlfE b lREI.AND's PLAIN tai *.
| The. GLASS Of Men the Tory Government
( | Uses to Garry Out It's Devilish /
ssSs. sSS$s3 &. sss Irish Policy
The time has come for Mr.. Balfonr
/! to take this one step necessary to clcai,
himself of cempncity with the last
moonlighting outrage planned by the
infornler!l Cullipane and the late head-
consta ble5Mh helallan. That step is the
la pporltmentsof a Royal Commission to
Investigate the careers of llelehan,
ECullinane, and the whole system. OF
crime and d-ou trage manu- fac0ure! the
irish. police. w e! demand this COM
mission. If Mr.. Balfour refuses@,t we
'.stall brand him assan a ccomplice and
:suborner Sef the criminals he seeks to
Shield; and all impartial men will be
bound 70 believe our accusation. There
has come: int, our possession this / week v e
Ia piece Of evidence concerning ths late
head constable Whelehan which throws
Ia ;fresls tight upon 5he methods Of
ernmeut by crime and outrage IN which
Mr.. Balforlr, like most OF his ssxTede-
cessors, has been: :dab billing hands Our
evidence amounts TO proof positive, and
when. the commission VS. call for be-
gins work our witnesses are ready to.
come forward IIsadscons5ableW Wne)e-
han, alias Gerald Whelan, the innocent
and amist,le policeman ever whom MIR.
Chamberlain mot1rnea so pathsticaliy,s
andythestory of whose death Mr. Bal
four disclosed 10 the House of COM
mons with such grnesome promptitude.
ard }3nsto, %;asfas foul avillain as ever.
was Matched in the steWs OF Dublin
CASTLE He5was one Of that class OF ill-
strunnents without which English Gov;
ernmeutsin ireland has been unable to
get along, sisee Pitt organized q rebel
Hon in, olaeyyfo carry the Union He.
IN Jsur ltke head
constable q EIalloran,s OF Che same
county Clare, who ls going about even
alow offering ten pound notes 10 farm
ers to- carry on ootrages, !" like teopsta-
hle Conr9ll, The Captain Moon1i ght'''
OF The Mushra Mountains, like Battley,
the poNceman4blscks1nirh Of Tubber-.
curry ana Ikea Whole fell generation
Of his kind from tle days Of head-cDn-
stable Talbot back to the days OF Key--
noltls and Jenny O'Brien. The son DT5
a policeman who learned the secrets OF
the trade in the old daysin Westnetath
he appears to have been a past master
iin his craft, The na1neless wretch
who calls himself Cullinane was not
merely his tool but his pupil. They
were Old friends. z@
+ 1t was in Cork iii 1879, Gerald Whelal
appears one morning ins Che goods store
Of the Great Southern and Western
Railway He asks for the Kerry
gang" AMONGST the porters, and as.ope me
Of the Kerry gang he begins his work '1E 4
i'll the store. Soon he begins to sx-
press the most advanced National
opinions. and shows great anxiety to
get acquainted with prominent Nation: 4
alists. III Cork. lie denounces Beacons:
field and his government and talks of
physical force. .'D-n it,. he ex-s
claims one day to his conrad es,, Isn't
a shame to say, where there is such a
lot OF able young men, and all thorough
Nationalists, that t1ey have no secret
society existing amongst them? Why
don't yeorgaplze a dynamite exploit,
and I4will+ be one Of tbs men that will
carry it out?, His comrades at length
.begin9to suspect him They notice he
is shown unusual favor ty the railway
company. Whenever he wants to go
away for a day he is granted permission,
fles ts!egraphs to Dublin for a pass, and
ia half an hotirst theresis a wire back 30
lethin, have the pass and alioWiShi i'm to-
travel tpIDublin by the malta thing
never known to have been done for sSny
servant before. Just beffNB the |
election: Of 1880 he finally leaves ayiags1
he ii AS cot back his g. .da SIT ttati on
tt6ras9y torn $ .Ebt, next tiEns tie is
sasn 1851 The. Cork goods / store about
ttWsel W manths after His disap pearnce,
as is5iIn The uniform of q sergeant ofsalf
sonsta abnlary and Sspells bis nam With5E
III ado ddiSiplial sy liable Most Of the$$||,
lime helan, or " eiehall was i1I +
Cork lls frisnds tuH inane; the Glafe In
tsoInler was there also. story
owe il famous career slhaI
non iieYsale himself In
} sear5 sto have in the spAy sfs the,
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